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Director Richard Gray and screenwriter Michele Gray of 'The Lookalike' (2013) on set in New Orleans.
Crime drama ‘The Lookalike’ (2013) wrapped its fourth week of filming this week in New Orleans, Louisiana. While the set breaks for Christmas and New Years, filming will recommence in early January. The film has an air of magic about it, capturing the essence of organic New Orleans. Filmic jambalaya, this is Nola noir with an Australian accent. While reminiscent of ...
Sundance Institute announced today the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions and the out-of-competition NEXT <=> section of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, January 17-27 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
Robert Redford, President & Founder of Sundance Institute said, “Every great film starts with an idea, and it is a testament to artists that they continually find new ideas, new stories, new points of view and...
Sundance Institute announced today 19 members of five juries awarding prizes at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, January 17-27 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. Short Film Awards will be announced at a ceremony on January 22 at Park City’s Jupiter Bowl, with feature film awards announced at a separate ceremony on January 26.
Members of the Alfred P. Sloan Jury will be announced in January.
U.S. DOCUMENTARY JURY
Liz Garbus
Academy Award® nominated...
CONGRATULATIONS to OUR WINNERS
Winter Film Awards 48-Hour Film Challenge 2012
What Can YOU Do In Just 48 Hours?
WINTER FILM AWARDS, a new independent Film Festival in NYC, is pleased to congratulate our winners for our first annual 48-Hour Film Challenge!
Winter Film Awards challenged the local community to create a 5-7 minute film from start to finish in just a single weekend. The WFA 48-Hour Film Challenge got under way on Friday, November 30 at 8pm. Each team was provided with one o...
Flicks International Student Short Film Festival
On 13, 14 and 15 March 2013, the fourth annual Flicks International Student Short Film Festival will take place in the lovely city of Groningen, the Netherlands. This festival, organized by students, promises to be a highlight for film buffs and film makers everywhere.
The festival will showcase short films of film academy students, film school students and other young film makers from around the world. Various themes and genres will be presented, so be surprised!
Flicks wants to provide film students and aspiring film makers the opportunity to show their work for a diverse audience: an audience that wants to be indulged by a great variety of short films. Prepare to be amazed by the early works of the great film makers of tomorrow.
Would you like to participate? Go to the website: http://www.usva.nl/flicksfilmfestival/ and fill in the entry form! Deadline is the 19th of January 2013.
If you have any questions you can always reach us at info@flicksfestival.com or find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/esnusvaflicks
We hope to hear from you soon!
11:00am
Registration and Exhibit Floor Opens
12:15pm – 12:45pm
First-time IFFS Attendee Orientation
Laurie Kirby, Esq
Executive Director
IFFS
1:15pm – 1:25pm
State of the Industry Address
Laurie Kirby, Esq
Executive Director
IFFS
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Opening Keynote “Pushing the Boundaries”
Ted Hope has been recognized as o...
Dates: March 4 - 10, 2013
Where: Prague, Czech Republic
Focus: narrative development, promotion, networking, co-financing, distribution – based on one-on-one meetings
The 2nd East Doc Platform (EDP) edition is the largest Central and East European documentary event held March in Prague, 2013, organized by the Institute of Documentary Film. It is the meeting point for 120 East European filmmakers and producers who seek creative, financial and distribution support, and more than 70 key international festival programmers, commissioning editors, buyers, distributors, sales agents, film fund and organization representatives who will be able to choose from some of the most promising films and projects in Central and Eastern Europe.The event is organized by the Institute of Documentary Film In association with the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
East Doc Platform draws from the unique representation of key international documentary professionals who are, in non-exclusive setting, available for informal meetings to every participant as well as accredited observers. East Doc Platform helps quality creative documentaries to fine-tune their story and visual style, and find suitable partners for co-production and distribution. East Doc Platform is designed for documentary professionals with projects in the development, production, and post-production stage, and for professionals with completed films.
We will be posting video interviews shortly.
Meanwhile we would like to introduce to you the men and women whose vision transformed this idea of a world class festival dedicated to US and Mexican films... in Los Cabos (seems almost obvious when you think of it) into a brillant success...
THE FOUNDERS
EDUARDO SANCHEZ-NAVARRO REDO
Regarded as one of the main p...
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Trailer for 'FREEDOM DEAL: the Story of Lucky', a pioneering historical drama taking place in Cambodia during the expansion of the US-Vietnam conflict in May 1970.
WATCH IT HERE > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7dezQCl4E
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Trailer for 'FREEDOM DEAL: the Story of Lucky', a brand new pioneering historical indie drama taking place in Cambodia during the expansion of the US-Vietnam conflict in May 1970.
SEE THE TRAILER @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7dezQCl4E
FREEDOM DEAL is the first ever movie about this chapter of history told from the Cambodian (Asian) ...
The 32nd Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF), presented by Halekulani will take place October 11-21 in Honolulu. The festival, in partnership with the Vilcek Foundation, will showcase six films--four features and two documentary shorts--as part of the New American Filmmakers (NAF) program.
The NAF program, previously called American Immigrant Filmmakers on Profile, continues to highlight the creative enterprises of talented foreign-born writers, directors, producers,...
Frequency Film Festival will be a monthly film festival, starting in 2013, and based in San Diego, CA, USA. There are no entry fees or deadlines.
Frequency Film Festival will present over 30 screenings, in twelve days, each month.
Documentary, Foreign, Horror, Action, Drama, Western, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Silent, Musical, Experimental, LGBT, Animation, Crime, Romance, and Family.
The mission of the Frequency Film Festival is to promote unique and exciting films and to screen ...
Here at ÉCU we wish to celebrate the most adroit talents in indie cinema today and seek out the finest actors who display passion, intensity and ingenuity in their work. This week’s spotlight is on Dublin born actor Emmett Scanlan who starred as Charlie Barnum in the dark Irish film Charlie Casanova (2010), a part which won him Best Actor at the ÉCU 2011 awards. Scanlan was carefully chosen for this award out of the all the actors who featured in the 77 films from 26 different countrie...
The 3rd annual Canadian Surf Film Festival (CSFF) launches its 2012 program, full with regular length features and shorts about surfing, its communities, its environments and the soci-political issues that define it. As in year’s past, the event runs in Halifax over four-days– September 27-30–bringing international film festival darlings and local indie shorts together for the viewing pleasure of surfers, non-surfers and film lovers alike.
“It’s lining up to be another gr...
Cinema Now Live Academy
Nik Powell
At Cinema City festival, within the Cinema Now Live Academy, festival goers enjoyed the opportunity to talk with Powell, and hear the rich
resume of life experiences of one of the leading British producers and
one of the most interesting people in the creative industry. Nik Powell
held two master-classes: The "Gospel" According to Nik at 15:00h, and From A to Z, Film Stories from the Producer’s Point of View at 16:30h...
In September this year a second edition of the biggest festival of contemporary Polish films will commence in the UK. This is Play Poland Film Festival organised by Polish Art Europe. The event will last for four months, until December 2012. It will take place in Great Britain, Ireland, Norway and Canada. Cinema goers will have the opportunity to see popular Polish movie productions (both full length and short) and exhibitions of the best film posters as well as to participate in meetings with...
Novelist Anne Rice'S 2005 book Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc)which imagines Jesus at the ages of 7-8 is being made into a film slated for release sometime in 2013.
Rice originally had a movie deal with Good News Holdings, but that fell apart in 2009, and the project was shelved indefinitely. But after watching The Stoning of Soraya M, Rice felt like she'd found the right person to bring her story to the silver screen: Am...
Hello from Camerado SE Asia:
We've been very busy here recently in SE Asia, prepping for initial production
of our 3rd feature, FREEDOM DEAL , while simultaneously securing
sponsorship for two film festivals we produce in the region, the CamboFest Cambodia Film Festival and the Bangkok IndieFest :
The CAMBOFEST, Cambodia Film Festival , Cambodia's first recurring international movie festival since...
Imagine a festival that would give film students and recent graduates the chance to showcase their short films. And imagine if this festival was open to students from all over the world to submit their films, regardless of language or genre.Well, some very innovative and creative people in Dublin not only imagined it, they did it. And thanks to their efforts, 40 young film makers are having their work shown on the big screen this weekend in Dublin at the inaugural Freshly Squeezed International ...
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I welcome indie artists, authors, economists, scientists, TV personalities and people making a difference in the world community. The website is:
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The First Annual Good Dog!
International Film Festival 2012 – Call for submissions.
Calling for Short drama, documentary, animation, comedy,
experimental, music videos and films by kids. Duration under 15mins and must be
a dog or dog related story
Good Dog! is unique and has set up its kennel in the heart of the dog
mad suburb of Balmain New South Wales Australia. The first festival will be the
un-missable event of 2012. Good Dog! aims to nurture, support and
promote independ...
The countdown has started, only five days to go until an event with one of the biggest media coverage in the world begins. The 2012 Cannes International Film Festival will commence May 16th, and conclude on May 27t. Our team from ÉCU will be there bringing our independent flavour, so be sure not to miss this prestigious annual event.
The Cannes Film festival is an excellent opportunity for ÉCU to bring to light both our strong commitment towards quality cinema, our skilled filmmakers,...
Festival Awards for THE WOODSMAN AND THE RAIN and THE SOUND OF LIGHT
After five exciting days, the twelfth edition of the Japanese film festival Nippon Connection closed on Sunday. More than 16,000 visitors watched 142 short and feature films and also came to 34 cultural events, resulting in...
The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation today announced the six winning projects in the seventh round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants. The grants are awarded twice annually to filmmakers for narrative feature films with social justice themes that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community. Between 2009 and 2013 the SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants will award nearly $2.5 million, including more than $1.3 million awarded in the fir...
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